Senior Consultant, Workplace Advisory

Country:
United States
Cities:
Baltimore, Boston, Hartford, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Trenton
Area of expertise:
Advisory Services
Job Description
Advisory, Workplace, Senior Consultant
Pair your adaptable, collaborative, curious mindset with your tech skills to help client digitally transform their ways of working. Better experience for air travelers? Data to help a non-profit better serve kids with needs? An Advisory role at Avanade offers you a purposeful career. Know your clients' needs inside out, work with them beginning to end, enjoy achievements together - and repeat.
Come join us
Our Workplace Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industries and thrives on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the world. As a Senior Consultant, you will collaborate with senior leadership and participate on engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a variety of business outcomes.
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It's all here, so take a closer look! Together we do what matters.
What you'll do

• Develop employee and team centric experiences (using data driven insights) that have parity with, or are better than, customer experiences to drive innovation, efficiency, and retention of top talent at scale.
• Develop and evolve future focused workforce and organization transformation strategies propositions and solutions.
• Drive cultural and operating model change as part of the transition to a high-performing, employee-centric modern workplace.
• Identify trends and strategies for Modern Workplace solutions to meet client business, financial and technical objectives.
• Conduct detailed analyses/interviews to understand and explain client problems and utilize standard consulting engagement practices such as facilitation, interviewing, gap analysis, etc., and provide input for workshops and support clients in service delivery transformation.
• Identify, develop, and document issues, perform analysis, draw conclusions and formulate strategic recommendations.
• Assist senior team members with sales efforts including development of client proposals and pitch mechanics.

Skills and experiences

• 3+ years of consulting or advisory experience with a focus on client workplace and employee experience strategies.
• Interfacing with executive level clients, assessing client's goals and objectives and the ability to translate ideas into strategic and practical solutions.
• Experience delivering large, integrated workplace / employee experience solutions, and the associated organizational/cultural change.

About you
Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

• Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to accept out-of-the box solutions.
• Organized, analytical, ambitious, enterprising, and personable.
• Intellectually curious and passionate about tech.
• Storyteller and engaging content creator.

Enjoy your career
Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Top-shelf clients - our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative - and fast. Look at who we work with - you've probably heard of them and just might want to work with them, too.
• Next-level work - Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Flexible work schedule - We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely.

Find out more about some of our benefits here.
A great place to work
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It's all here, so take a closer look!
We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.
Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking
• Experimenting courageously
• Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice
• Encouraging boldness
• Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client
• Prioritizing what matters
• Acting as one

Learn more
To learn more about the types of projects our Advisory team works on check out these case studies:
Mater Hospital accelerates its digital transformation to keep patients and healthcare workers safe
QBE is transforming its digital customer experience with Avanade and Accenture
Aon Australia: The secret to helping people connect
Blundstone meets customer demand in an agile way
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